The land I do not know where

I was first transported to this land,

after I entered into contemplative prayer.

It was just a beautiful land, spacious and bright.

I decided God created it for me,

to help me cope with my life at the monastery.



Through the years, every now and again in meditation.

I would find myself transported there.

I called it heaven on earth.

It is literally that, heaven on earth.



A few years ago, I was told,

It was the planet I come from.



These days, at the early hours of morning,

I often get rapt into a place of peace and bliss.

When I am transported there,

I simply enjoy being there.

Freeing myself of everything.

Allowing myself to just be there.

Enjoying, relishing every minute of it.



I have come to learn, this is a form of astral traveling.

I do not leave my body.

Instead, in meditation, or early hours of morning,

I would find myself being transported to a spacious land of light.

Or lifted up a notch higher.

And being in this magical place, beyond human description.

It is just a very nice place or places of pure bliss and happiness.



Asked about such experiences.

Gobi Krishna said, one would not exchange it for anything in the world.

I agree with him.

Once, one has a glimpse of eternity, everything pales in comparison.

There is only that longing and yearning to be there.

Hence those who experience it do not fear death.

Death is being released from the heaviness of this earth,

Taking flight back to where we come from.



This explains also the homesickness I used to experience,

Longing for this land I do not know where.

I just know it is not of earth but the beyond.